UNUSUAL FIRST YEAR FLOWERS 
Here are kinds that will show quick blossoms 
from spring planted seed. Sowings made even as 
late as July will give a good season of bloom 
with most. Try them for a “different” and more 
delightful garden. Letter key, page one. 
AMBROSIA MEXICANA—ecd24. Feather Ger¬ 
anium. Graceful green plumes for mixing with 
other cut flowers. Pleasingly aromatic. Pkt. 5c; 
spec. pkg. 15c. 
ARGEMONE PEERLESS BLEND—ed24. Hand¬ 
somely marbled spiny leaves and large silky 
“poppy” flowers, lemon, orange or Tyrian purple. 
Fine. Pkt. 15c; spec. pkg. 35c. 
ASTER ELEGANCE—ec30. Very large single 
flowers with golden centers and gracefully curved 
petals. Blue, lavender, scarlet, rose and white 
mixed. Pkt. 15c; spec. pkg. 35c. 
ASTER GIGANTIC—Los Angeles. ec3G. Full 
centered flowers with airily curled and interlaced 
petals. Delightful pure shell pink. Probably 
largest flowered and longest stemmed of all dou¬ 
ble Asters. Pkt. 20c; spec. pkg. 50c. 
ASTER INDIAN SUMMER—ec30. Big feathery 
fully double flowers in a most unique autumn 
shade of copper rose. Pkt. 20c; spec. pkg. 50c. 
ATRIPLEX ATROSANGUINEA—ed48. The 
plant, all parts of it, is brightest crimson. Valued 
for bizarre effects. Pkt. 10c; spec. pkg. 25c. 
AUDIBERTIA GRANDIFLORA—Hummingbird 
Flower. ed28. Conspicuous crimson blossoms in 
dense showy clusters. Hard to get, being a shy 
seeder, but very good. Pkt. 20c. 
BIDENS DAHLOIDES BLEND—ec24. Pale 
pink, rose and velvety black-maroon. “Cosmos” 
blossoms, but roots like Dahlia, that may be win¬ 
tered in the cellar. Pkt. 15c; spec. pkg. 35c. 
CALANDRINA GRANDIFLORA—ed20. Blos¬ 
soms of darkest richest rose, two inches across, 
graceful above succulent foliage. Showy. Pkt. 15c. 
CALENDULA SUNSHINE—ecl8. Fluffy “chry¬ 
santhemum” flowers of deepest gold, with orange 
glints like reflected sunshine. Pkt. 10c; spec, 
pkg. 25c. 
CALENDULA SUN GLEAM—ecl8. Radiant 
tangerine with autumn brown eye. Pkt. 15c; 
spec. pkg. 35c. 
CALENDULA ART SHADES—ecl8. Odd and 
delicate tones, apricot, cream, buff, dark orange, 
and exquisite picotees. Pkt. 10c; spec. pkg. 25c. 
CASSIA CHAMAECRISTA—ed24. Gold Coin 
Flower. Splendid showy plants with fern-like 
foliage, sensitive to the touch, and multitudinous 
large flowers, pure yellow with maroon dots. 
Pkt. 5c; spec. pkg. 15c; % oz. 40c. 
CENTAUREA THE RUBY—ecd30. Deep glow¬ 
ing ruby, as brilliant as the jewel for which it is 
named. Very different, and you will like it. Pkt. 
5c; spec. pkg. 15c. 
CLEOME SERRULATA—en36. Rather pretty 
airy flowers, rose or white. A valuable bee plant, 
or for wild gardens. Pkt. 5c; spec. pkg. 15c. 
COLLINSIA BLEND—cst20. Chinese Houses. 
The stems carry successive whorls of oddly -two- 
parted bloom, the lower lip with darker contrast¬ 
ing color. White, and varied tones of blue, lav- 
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